Quantum Physics Looks At The 2004
Election

Quantum physics points out that the way
we observe the universe in this present moment literally
evokes the universe that is observed. Our perception of the
universe is a part of the universe that is happening
through us that has an effect on the universe that we are
observing. Quantum physics points out that it makes no
sense whatsoever to talk of an objective universe separate
or independent from the observer. To quote noted physicist
John Wheeler “Useful as it is under everyday circumstances
to say that the world exists ‘out there,’ independent of
us, that view can no longer be upheld. There is a strange
sense in which this is a participatory universe.”

In a
variation of the classic “two-slit experiment,” which is the
cornerstone of quantum physics, Wheeler has demonstrated in
the “delayed choice experiment” that not only does our act
of observation in this present moment effect the way the
universe manifests in this present moment, but that the act
of observation in this present moment actually has an
effect on the past. This bit of quantum weirdness seems
particularly relevant for our current times after the
controversial presidential election of 2004.

Consensus
reality, as embodied in the views of classical physics,
describes the present as having a particular past. Quantum
physics, on the other hand, because of its probabilistic
nature enlarges the arena of history such that the past is
an amalgam of all possible pasts that are compatible with
the version of the present moment that we are currently
experiencing. The quantum universe is one in which the past
involves a wide range of possible pasts all co-existing in a
state of unmanifest potential. Speaking in physics terms,
by imagining the past to be a certain way, we literally
collapse the infinite potentiality of the past’s wave
function, and concretize the past as being something very
particular. This is analogous to the quantum physicist’s
question: is it a wave or a particle? And the answer, of
course, is that it depends on how we are observing

The
quantum universe is one which pulsates in and out of the
void multiple times every nano-second, endlessly recreating
itself anew. Each moment brings with it a potentially new
past, which we are the ‘builders’ of in the present moment.
In this present moment right now there are endless
possibilities, it is an infinitely textured moment in time
seething with unmanifested potential. In the future, when we
consider this multi-dimensional moment we are in now, we
will probably focus our attention and only remember a
certain slice or aspect of this very moment, solidifying it
in time, and this will be our ‘memory’ of that seemingly
past event. And yet, by the way we remember this present
moment in the future will have an actual effect on the way
that moment in the future manifests. So on the one hand,
the way we contemplate the past has a creative effect on
how the present moment manifests.

What Wheeler is pointing
out through the delayed choice experiment, though, is that
the past doesn’t actually exist in a solid and objective way
that causes or determines our present moment experience like
is imagined by classical physics. Rather, he is saying our
situation is just the opposite. He is saying that by the
way we observe in this present moment we actually reach
back into time and create the past. It is not just the
future that’s undetermined, but the past as well; just as
there are ‘probable’ futures there are ‘probable’ pasts. Our
present observations select one out of many possible
quantum histories for the universe.

We have entranced
ourselves and fallen under a self-created spell if we
imagine that the past exists in a solid, objective way. To
quote Wheeler “It is wrong to think of that past as ‘already
existing’…..the past has no existence except as it is
recorded in the present.” When we become convinced that the
past exists in a solid way, we solidify it in our
imagination as being that particular way, which will thereby
create compelling evidence that proves the rightness of our
point of view (that the past really is that way). When we
imagine that the past is a particular way, for example,
this conviction effects our present moment experience AS IF
the past really was that way, which just confirms to us our
conviction that the past REALLY IS that way, which just
makes the past seem even more AS IF it really was that way,
ad infinitum.

This is to fall into a self-created and
infinitely self-confirming feedback loop that is
synchronistic and atemporal in its operation and thereby
has the nature of a self-fulfilling prophecy. We have
unwittingly literally hypnotized ourselves by our own power
of effecting reality by the way we observe it. Because of
the limited and limiting way we view the past it seems
convincingly solid and objectively existing in a way that
it simply is not. The past is much more malleable than we
have been imagining. For what really did happen in the past?
For that matter, what is actually happening right now?

In
a circular, non-linear and acausal feedback loop, the past
effects us in this present moment, while at the same time,
in this present moment we effect the past. The way we
observe the past in this present moment actually effects
the past which simultaneously effects us in this present
moment in what I call a ‘synchronistic, cybernetic feedback
loop.’ The doorway is the present moment, which is the point
where our power to shape reality is to be found. In quantum
physics the universe wasn’t created billions of years ago
in the big bang but rather is being created right now by
what Wheeler refers to as “genesis by observership.” The
mystery of this universe doesn’t lie at some point way back
in the past, but rather, right now, in this very living
present moment.

This quantum perspective on the past
arising or being conjured up out of and into the present
moment collapses the sense of sequential time and linear
causality. This points to the non-local nature of space and
time, in that the past, present, and future completely
interpenetrate and are inseparable from each other. In a
bit of quantum weirdness, if we ask whether the universe
really existed before we started looking at it, the answer
we get from the universe is that it /looks/ as if it existed
before we started looking at it.

Quantum physics is
describing what I call the physics of the dreamlike nature
of reality. Like a mass shared dream, we are all literally
moment by moment calling forth and collaboratively ‘dreaming
up’ this very universe into materialization. And dreams, by
their very nature don’t exist in a ‘flat-land’ where they
are fixed in meaning, but are extremely multi-dimensional.
When we contemplate the past in this very moment, it has
the same ontological status of and no more reality than a
dream we had last night. Just like this present moment, when
we contemplate it tomorrow, will in that present moment
have no more reality than a figment of our
imagination.

What actually did happen on November 2? Did
George Bush win the election? Or did he steal it? And if he
stole it, is this criminal act something we can do nothing
about? If this universe is like quantum physics describes,
then we are only /not/ able to do anything about it because
of our own self-imposed limitations and a failure of our
imagination in this very moment. If even some of the
overwhelming evidence that Bush stole the election is true,
can we step into a universe in this very moment in which we
have the power to do something about it? Or is the past
written in stone? Quantum physics points out that this is a
participatory universe in which the power to change reality
is literally in our hands at every moment and that the
choice is truly ours. Let us not get fooled into giving away
our power by the source of our real power, namely, the
reality-creating function of our own sacred imagination.

Paul Levy is a
spiritually-informed political activist. He can be reached
at paul@awakeninthedream.com
*. Please visit his
website at http://www.awakeninthedream.com/, where
his article “The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our
Collective Psychosis” is available. Please feel free to
pass this article along to a friend if you feel so
inspired.

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